Deuteronomy 28:16 · KJV
“Cursed {shalt} thou {be} in the city, and cursed {shalt} thou {be} in the field.”
— Deuteronomy 28:16
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Cursed {shall be} thy basket and thy store.
Deuteronomy 28 — Context
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, {to} the right hand, or {to} the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16Cursed {shalt} thou {be} in the city, and cursed {shalt} thou {be} in the field.
17Cursed {shall be} thy basket and thy store.
18Cursed {shall be} the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Cross References
Malachi 3:9-12
Ye {are} cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, {even} this whole nation.
Isaiah 24:6-12
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Jeremiah 14:2-5
Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
Haggai 1:9-11
Ye looked for much, and, lo, {it came} to little; and when ye brought {it} home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that {is} waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. {blow...: or, blow it away}
Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD {is} in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Jeremiah 44:22
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, {and} because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Joel 2:3
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land {is} as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. {go about...: or, make merchandise against a land, and men acknowledge it not}